25 Things You Didn’t Know About YouTube

25 Things you didn’t know about YouTube

Over the years YouTube has become one of the most entertaining sites on the web, where you can get lost in tons and tons of fun or educating videos. Here are the 25 things you didn’t know about YouTube!

There is nothing that you can’t find on YouTube, from funny videos to “how to” videos that teach you almost anything. The site is now touching a vast variety of people.

If you’re searching for some music, or some cats that are napping, let us tell you that YouTube has become the perfect place for video entertaining.

But, not many people know that at first, the site was designed for dating purposes. This is just one interesting fact among many of them that we are gonna present to you today. These are the 25 things you didn’t know about YouTube!

1. This popular site was founded by Steven Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, and the first video that was uploaded on YouTube was with one of the founders, Steven Chen at the San Diego Zoo, and it is called “Me at the zoo”.

Me at the zoo; via www.youtube.com

2. The founders knew each other from working together at PayPal. In fact, the person who designed their logo was Chad Hurley.

PayPal Logo; via www.youtube.com

3. In 2006 YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion in stocks, only 18 months after it was created.

Google logo; via pichost.me

4. As a search engine, YouTube is on the second place after Google, and it is bigger than Yahoo!, Bing and Ask combined.

YouTube logo; via www.clickcom.com

5. Cyrus Yazdini was arrested by the L.A. police in 2008 after he posted on YouTube some videos with him vandalising some places. So, next time be careful what you are posting on YouTube, you never know who is watching!

Police car; via www.flickr.com

6. The first video on YouTube that hit 1 million views, was a Nike ad with Ronaldinho, called “Touch of gold”.

Ronaldinho; via www.dailymotion.com

7. As of 2010, if you suddenly decide that you wanna watch every video on YouTube, it would take you 1,700 years to do that.

YouTube; via marketingland.com

8. In 2013, a decade of content was uploaded on YouTube, every day.

YouTube; via www.youtube.com

9. 2009 was a great year for the video quality on YouTube, because that was the year when the full HD option was released.

YouTube; via wallpaperscraft.com

10. Every month 800 million unique visitors are accessing the YouTube page, which is more than the population of Europe.

Traffic arrow; via www.seoclerks.com

11. The first version of YouTube was called Tune In Hook Up, and it was a date site. They later decided that they didn’t want to focus on a single type of videos, but rather the site should feature different types of them.

Young couple drink coffee; via www.huffingtonpost.com

12. In some countries such as China, Brasil, Turkey or Bangladesh, YouTube is blocked.

YouTube; via www.youtube.com

13. The longest video on YouTube is a slideshow made by Jonathan Harchick, and it has 571 hours, 1 minute and 41 seconds.